Brandon Taylor has been part of some wonderful traditions as a college player and as, well, a 'Taylor.'

Rusty Costanza/The Times-PicayuneLSU safety Brandon Taylor is hoping to get noticed in Mobile this week.

He is one of three brothers from Franklinton to earn a football scholarship to LSU. Before his senior season, running back Richard Murphy chose Taylor as the next recipient of the coveted No. 18 jersey. And this fall, he hopes to join his older brother, Curtis, by earning a job as a player in the NFL.

"Every team I've talked to has asked me about my brother and how my family is so talented and stuff like that," Taylor said here, where he is on the South squad in the Senior Bowl. "Just got to keep working hard and just keep the family name going."

As it happens, Taylor is just one of three players in LSU's secondary last year with bright football futures. Cornerback Morris Claiborne, who chose to enter the NFL draft after his junior year, is projected as a first round pick, and Tyrone Mathieu is likely to follow the same route as Claiborne following the 2012 campaign.

All of them look to play football on Sundays one year after cornerback Patrick Peterson became a top pick in the draft, five years after cornerback Chevis Jackson got drafted and six since safety LaRon Landry went to the NFL. The LSU secondary, in other words, has been quite the talent pool.

"It has just been an honor to play with those type of guys and just be around people like that," Taylor said. "When you see them making big plays and hustling to the ball, that just motivates you to do it even more and make big plays. Just being around all that talent and watch young players grow up and be successful, it's just a dream come true to me."

The Taylor family - brother Jhryn was also a defender for the Tigers - have been a gold mine for Coach Les Miles and Brandon said the family intends to become a similar boon for Franklinton.

"A lot of kids back in Franklinton. Franklinton is a hard place to grow up in . A lot of people don't get to go out and go to college and I got that chance. So I'm just going to go in the NFL and do my best and try to give back to my community."

The first step on that road, he said, is making a good impression in Mobile.

"I just want to come out here and play with the speed I played at LSU," he said. "We played with a lot of speed in our secondary. (I want to) make open-field tackles and show them how well I can cover at safety. That was just one of my goals coming into college and since I've been playing football. Being at a program like LSU, they groom you to be a tremendous player on and off the field, in the class room and as a person. It's just turning over and working out for the best for me right now and I'm getting to play in this game with a lot of great players."

All those great players and all those great Taylors (Brandon said there is one nephew left who might play in Tiger Stadium), however, couldn't save LSU from Alabama's typhoon in the BCS Championship. That means Taylor missed one older brother foot step: Curtis Taylor got a national championship ring in 2007.

"It feels like everything went wrong," Taylor reflected on the title game debacle. "We just weren't clicking on all three phases of the game - special teams, offense or defense. We couldn't' get any three-and-outs on defense and on offense, we couldn't get a first down and get any rhythm going. When you're playing a team like that, you've just got to be on your A game and we really weren't on our A game that night.

"At halftime some people were feeling kind of down. We just knew the game wasn't over. We just had to play all four quarters because we've been doing it the whole season. We weren't going to stop then. It just didn't work out for us but we left it all out there on the field."